Can you win before your ice character melts away? To play Cool Runnings, you'll need a dose of coolness and a freezer yes, literally as the game "characters" are made of ice and you must create them prior to play. The winner is whoever brings their ice to the finish line first or whoever still has an ice character in play while everyone else has melted away. During the game which is played on a modular, waterproof game board players will attack one another with a pinch of salt, a water bath, or a simple hands-on approach in which your own heat can damage someone's character. If the defending player can play the same attack card as you, though, the attack bounces back on you!